July 3, 2025 - Microsoft lays off 15,000+ in 2025 to fund its $80B AI pivot—an aggressive bet with massive risks, rewards, and ethical questions.

September 11, 2025 - The Microsoft Redmond job cuts add up to around 42 workers, but this brings the number of cuts among Washington-based employees to over 3,200, and the total number of employees affected by layoffs since May 2025 to over 15,000.

1 week ago - Companies such as Verizon, Starbucks, Meta, Microsoft, and UPS have trimmed staff this year. Amazon joined the fray in October, announcing that it would cut roughly 14,000 staff. See the list of companies letting workers go in 2025.

August 7, 2025 - Headquarters Reduction Redmond, Washington ceased to be a multifunctional engineering center. From March 2024 to August 2025, Redmond experienced over 60% reduction in old job roles.

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July 3, 2025 - Microsoft is conducting another round of layoffs in 2025, targeting around 4% of its workforce across divisions and sectors. Microsoft’s July cuts come just as the company enters its 2026 fiscal year with reorganization efforts leading the ...

September 9, 2025 - This time, it’s not thousands of employees, but just over 40 roles in Redmond (via Seattle Times). Even so, it marks the fifth consecutive month of job cuts in 2025, bringing the total to more than 15,000 employees ...

July 2, 2025 - Multiple employees confirmed to Business Insider that the layoffs have begun. One affected employee said they have until July 8 to sign a severance agreement, after which they'll receive 60 days of paid leave.

November 11, 2025 - Microsoft has laid off thousands of workers this year. Seven alums have learned that job security doesn't exist in the white-collar world.

Microsoft in July unveiled a second round of layoffs for 2025, this time planning to cut about 9,000 employees, including an undisclosed number of managers and salespeople.

May 14, 2025 - Microsoft is laying off 3% of its workforce, which impacts thousands of employees, reports say.

Thus far, Microsoft company management has not admitted openly to any connection between the layoffs this year and the introduction and development of generative AI technologies. However, media observers, analysts and online commenters generally take it as a given that the job cuts are part of a large-scale restructuring of the tech industry related to AI. The company plans to invest $80 billion in AI-related development in fiscal year 2025 alone.

July 3, 2025 - Microsoft says it is cutting thousands of jobs in its second round of mass layoffs in recent months. While it is unclear whether or not any Canadian jobs will be lost, the union representing 120 gaming industry workers employed by Microsoft ...

3 days ago - Some of the world's biggest tech companies cited AI as part of their layoff and restructuring strategy in 2025.

From what we can gather, each January ... and "bad karma" to lay off workers around holidays, such as Thanksgiving and Christmas). It happened in 2023, in 2024, and also in 2025....

Three major investment banks raised ... ramping up AI spend is exactly what investors want to see. 53,000+ tech workers laid off in 2025 so far across 126 companies....

November 3, 2025 - Nadella’s comments come after a year of workforce stagnation for Microsoft. By the end of fiscal 2025 in June, the company’s headcount remained steady at around 228,000, following several layoff rounds that cut at least 6,000 roles.